Nature Quotes · Page 494

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

— Donald Fagen

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

— Soren Kierkegaard

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

— Alfred de Musset

Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.

— Sonam Wangchuk

“Connecting with the intelligence in nature is easy. Just ask.”

— Maureen Shepard

If you strip away someone's connection to the landscape, you risk losing their support as well.

— Steven Rinella

Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our ways

— Bongani

There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent…

— George W. Bush

The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me…

— Ben Fogle

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into…

— Henry Beston

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

— Ayn Rand

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing…

— E. F. Schumacher

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents…

— Frank Sinatra

“The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand…

— C.S. Friedman

“Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking…

— Kant Emmanuel

“There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now this is a law that has evolved…

— Tom Shadyac

“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a…

— Anonymous

Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are…

— Christopher Kimball

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The Door. To keep from thinking about it, I focus on seven words: "Don't worry, he's going to be fine." Those are…

— RA Nelson

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,…

— Walt Whitman

I've tended to write lyrics alone. The emotion of the melody comes first. But what stimulates us are usually these dreamy minor…

— Stella Mozgawa

We're all humans on the earth. However we can help, we should.

— Bukayo Saka

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

All the unearned suffering that we endure here on earth is turned into gold in paradise.

— John Lars Zwerenz

“My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.”

— Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

— Roger Deakins

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

— James Hutton

“the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

— David Quammen

There is a reason I am labeled 'The Most Expensive Body On Earth.'

— Amanda Lepore

“He adored force and hated weakness. It is the crime of female natures.”

— Mauriac François

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

— Joe Teti

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.”

— VicDo

It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.

— Mary Butts

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

— Vicki Baum